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by bryanph_ 2mo ago
I agree. Though the article mentions work from people like Einstein, Copernicus, Darwin, etc. A far cry from the kind of work Y Combinator funds. It gives the post a comedic air to it. Perhaps if had given some more grounded examples that f
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by bryanph_ 2mo ago
When Paul Graham uses a phrase like "great work" I can't help but only consider it as being synonymous to "work that generates a big return for the investor" in his context of Y Combinator
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by bryanph_ 11mo ago
I've fat fingered the "hide" button quite often when I was trying to hit the comments button. That's the main thing that I find slightly annoying about the default HN layout
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by bryanph_ 3y ago
I don't quite understand the mentioning of node at the start of the article as a cause of this. You can write a monolith in node just as well as you can write a web of microservices. That said I agree with the sentiment of this article
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by bryanph_ 4y ago
What's the reason for the max length in the input? 400 characters is very short to answer the prompt "Please start by introducing what you are doing and what are any other industries and nature of the job that you are looking for&
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by bryanph_ 4y ago
SQL servers with JSON support that is ;D
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by bryanph_ 4y ago
I don't really want Git to change so much. What I do want however is for other tools to take over features from Git. Pretty much every app that I use in my daily life would be enhanced if it had git-like features. My notes on this: ht
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by bryanph_ 4y ago
Here's a weird take: because the landing page is so vague the user doesn't know whether the app is useful or not so the user will sign up just to take a look at the app to figure out what it actually is. Once the user realizes it
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by bryanph_ 4y ago
Here's someone who did some research and found the exact opposite to be true for example https://www.viget.com/articles/a-bone-to-pick-with-skeleton-...
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by bryanph_ 4y ago
This article is very frustrating, it's full of assumptions that are stated as facts. > Most of all, it makes people perceive your site to be faster than it actually is. Remember that we are designing interfaces for use by real peopl
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by bryanph_ 4y ago
Specifically being able to create a deep link to a passage is a very powerful capability indeed. The friction required to look up a paper and navigate to the specific passage for a given reference can really be so high that we just end up a
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by bryanph_ 5y ago
Looks great! Some things I really like: * The "seamless" mode for all the views that removes action buttons. Feels kind of like an "exploration view". * New cards created on the home page are automatically added to a &qu
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by bryanph_ 5y ago
One thing that strikes me about most academic knowledge tools is that they seem to focus on parsing the current set of academic literature and producing supposedly interesting insights out of them (which quickly tends to snowball into wanti
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by bryanph_ 6y ago
I think in most of the mentioned note taking methods (zettelkasten, digital gardening) spaced repetition is kind of frowned upon in a way. It is seen as a necessity because of the way the educational system requires you to conjure up a cert
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by bryanph_ 8y ago
The key question when reading any article/book/whatever is the following: "if anything, what is actually important enough to remember from this article?", or in the case of PKBs: "What should be in my PKB and what s
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by bryanph_ 8y ago
Decentralization is a scale. Complete decentralization is undesirable, you just want to give small groups the ability to be autonomous (however big they want to become).
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by bryanph_ 8y ago
We need grants based on the outcome of the project, not based on what technology is used to achieve it.
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by bryanph_ 8y ago
yes I have a touchscreen computer
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by bryanph_ 8y ago
Then you stand for nothing at all. You can stand for decentralization of financial systems at which point blockchain might become an enabling technology. But you are arbitrarily limiting yourself if you have such a strong focus on a given p
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by bryanph_ 8y ago
Dear developers, stop defining yourself with the technology you work with. Instead define yourself based on what you believe in and stand for.
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by bryanph_ 8y ago
Ah I'm using firefox; I suppose it's unintentional then.
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by bryanph_ 8y ago
You actually can't select text on the nytimes website? Instead they add a functionality where double clicking changes the font size. Looks like a bored designer is at work here...
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by bryanph_ 9y ago
The solution is simple. You need a cryptocurrency where the primitives are simple and predictable. Basically the same reason we don't use eval() on user input. This might very well mean the end for bitcoin if legal parties pick up on t
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by bryanph_ 9y ago
There is no such thing as "bottoms up" in mathematics, I think a relatively broad examination of mathematics might be useful so that you can discover what is relevant to the subjects you are actually interested in. I learned this
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by bryanph_ 9y ago
You can skip to 6.1 to read the (kind of obvious) conclusions.
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by bryanph_ 9y ago
Imperative programming is fine imo, as long as it is done in a relatively small scope.
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by bryanph_ 9y ago
Shows how out of touch I am with the corporate world. I can't believe people pay monthly for this.
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by bryanph_ 9y ago
Nowadays I only consider switching front-end frameworks if there is a substantial conceptual improvement. React did this for me due to its uni-directional dataflow and component-based architecture. There is nothing new here conceptually.
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by bryanph_ 9y ago
Have you considered open sourcing and selling commercial licenses for integration? I think this is a product that many corporations would love to integrate with. However, as an alone standing product I don't think it adds a lot of valu
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by bryanph_ 9y ago
Can you give a link to your blog? Would love to read about your take on knowledge management. I'm currently working on trying to create a personal knowledge base using a graph-based approach. I wrote a prototype a while back which is r

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